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Oral history interview with Tzvi Tatarko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.155 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0155

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    Oral history interview with Tzvi Tatarko

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tzvi Tatarko (born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1924) discusses his family; attending school in Sosnovitz (Sosnowiec) and Bedzin; the Zionist youth groups in Sosnovitz; the outbreak of war; going with his siblings to Radom; being sent to the large ghetto in Radom, Poland, in 1940 and working in a factory; the 1942 action in a small ghetto; being taken to Shkolna work camp after the Radom ghetto was destroyed; working in an arms factory with 2000 to 3000 other workers; the killing of mothers and children in the camp in winter of 1943; the Judenrat in the ghetto and the Jewish community; the camp changing from a work camp to a concentration camp; the march from Radom to a train in Tomaszów Mazowiecki and from there to Auschwitz and then to Weingens concentration camp; hearing about the Warsaw ghetto uprising; the camp and his work there; the French Army arriving and being liberated in April 1945; the French Army taking them to Neuberg, Germany, to recuperate; leaving Neuberg to search for his sister; going to a kibbutz near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and leading the group in preparation to go to Israel; his immigration to Israel and adjustment to life there; living after the Holocaust; fighting in the Six Day War after joining the Israeli Army; and the important lessons to be learned from the Holocaust and WWII.
    Interviewee
    Tzvi Tatarko
    Date
    interview:  1993 May 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    5 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Tatarko, Tzvi, 1924-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Tzvi Tatarko in Israel on May 2, 1993, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:16
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